We are watching history

[RainCaster]

In my lifetime, I have seen and been part of many historic happenings. I can remember the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the USSR. I can remember shaking President Nixon's hand, then hearing him step down from office a year later. I was there for the beginning of the end of the GOP - when the "Great Communicator" first ran for the presidency. I can still remember my sense of absolute stupidity at Bush Sr.s "1000 points of light" and the bullshit of the "compassionate conservative" doctrine. I remember my wife getting me up early one weekend to watch Princess Diana get married. Then I was appalled at the lies Baby Bush fed us so he could go to war with Saddam Hussein. Then there was 9-11.

Now I'm here to see the final death rattle of the GOP as DFT trots out another loser round. I think I will still be here to witness the end of Putin's Russia and the financial collapse of the PRC.

What other historic moments have you experienced?

[vercetti2021]

1. 9/11

Covid pandemic, 2022 historic rare midterms

I'm only 32 lol

[No Vested Interest]

3. FDR's death & funeral train, JFK assassination, First spaceship lands on the Moon...

[First Speaker]

2. I was present for MLK's "I have a dream" speech...

...my Dad drove me in from the DC suburbs to see it. I saw JFK's funeral. I was outside the White House the day Nixon resigned. But nothing in the 50 years since...LOL...

[NBachers]

4. As a tiny kid, John Cameron Swayze's reporting on the Korean war. Also, on his newscast, reports of

Military bases around the world where Camel cigarettes were shipped.

[gopiscrap]

5. JFK assassination, MLK assassination, RFK assassination, moon landing, Queen Elizabeth's death,

Covid pandemic, civil rights struggle, Vietman War

[Meadowoak]

6. 1st black POTUS, gay marriage legalized, 1st female VPOTUS.

[rubbersole]

7. Mickey Mantle,The Lone Ranger, JFK, Mercury space program,

Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Chicago '68, assassations, Vietnam, Dylan, moonlanding, high school sweetheart, Woodstock...

[Straw Man]

8. Let's see ...

Cuban missile crisis, JFK assassination, 1968 wave of "revolution," Watergate, Iran hostage crisis, end of USSR et al, 9/11, COVID pandemic ... I guess those are the biggies.

I feel old.

[DFW]

9. Experienced some things before I was aware

I was born in March of 1952, so I was around for the Checkers speech, Eisenhower‘s elections, the end of the Korean war, the McCarthy hearings, the East German uprising and repression, the Hungarian uprising and repression.

Things I do remember: above ground A-bomb tests in Nevada (my dad was present), the Moscow „Kitchen debate (my dad was there, too),“ the Democratic convention in L.A. in 1960 (my dad took me along for that, met Groucho Marx), the Cuban missile crisis, saw JFK give a speech, met RFK numerous times, November 22, 1963, LBJ‘s election, was at the huge Vietnam War protest at the Pentagon in 1967, got to perform at Washington‘s Ambassador Theater before it closed, the election of 1968, the moon landing live on TV, Nixon‘s resignation (heard about it while in Jyväskylä, Finland), Gerry Ford‘s swearing in (met him a year later), Carter‘s election, the Camp David talks, the Iranian revolution, the elections of 1980 and 1984, the first Space Shuttle disaster, the 1988 election, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the opening of the inner-German border on November 9, 1989 (was 30 miles from the border in Hamburg when it happened), the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Clinton‘s election, Clinton‘s re-election, Jeb Bush‘s cheating to put his brother in the White House, 9-11, the rise and fall of Howard Dean’s presidential run, the Iraq invasion, Blackwell‘s cheating John Kerry out of the White House, Obama‘s keynote speech in 2004, Howard‘s win of Congress in 2006, Obama‘s election in 2008, his re-election in 2012, Citizens United being upheld, Trump in, the trashing of Al Franken, Trump out, Biden in, and the midterm election of last week. And about 500 things I should have mentioned.